Netball Practices and Training

Anita Navin

jun 2013 · Crowood

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Netball Practices and Training offers a comprehensive guide to planning netball training sessions with an emphasis on decision-making. Ensuring a player is equipped with the technical and tactical skills should not be the only focus of a coach, and by integrating practices that incorporate decision-making, a coach is successfully preparing a player for the demands of competition. The book outlines a range of practices for integrating game principles, skills and tactics for all units of the court. The book includes:180 practices with progressions for decision training; Sections addressing warm-up activities, movement skills, attack, defence and shooting; A section showing how a coach can integrate sport psychology into their practices; Information boxes containing key points; Detailed analyses of the movement and individual skills in netball; Reviews of the tactical aspects and game principles in attack and defence; Supporting information on differentiating a practice for players of different levels of ability. A comprehensive guide to planning netball training sessions with an emphasis on decision-making, that will provide a key resource for all netball coaches and teams. Includes 180 practices with progressions for decision training and gives details on warm-up activities, movement skills, attack, defence and shooting. Superbly illustrated with 20 colour photographs and 180 diagrams. Anita Navin is a highly experienced coach and coach educator has been involved with England Netball for over twenty five years.

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Anita Navin is Head of School for Sport and Exercise at the University of Gloucestershire, and has been involved with England Netball for over twenty-five years as an athlete, coach, coach developer, talent scout and consultant. In 2011 she was awarded UK Coach Educator of the Year. Her involvement with netball continues in her role as a TV commentator, and she has written several books, including Netball Practices and Training (Crowood). Here, she has assembled an expert team to provide the very best ideas available on netball coaching.